Poverty & Public Policy Group

David Booth is a sociologist and was formerly Professor of Development Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has published on social development theory, including Rethinking Social Development (1994) and on political and social issues in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa.

His current research projects are on state responsiveness to poverty and the politics of PRSPs, with fieldwork in Uganda, Ghana and Bolivia. Other work is concerned with PRS monitoring, Poverty and Social Impact Analysis and assessing the evaluability of general budget support as a modality of poverty-focused aid.

d.booth@odi.org.uk

Key projects, books and papers
General Budget Support

Ongoing

In recognition of the importance of budgetary aid and, in particular, "new" forms of support to national budgets, DFID is looking into the feasibility and scope for undertaking a joint evaluation, with other donors and national partners, of general budget support as an aid modality.
Does Budget Support Work? Evidence from Tanzania. Short Report. Full Report.
Evaluation of GBS - evaluation framework
Phase 1 report
Phase 2 report
Workshop report

Technical Support to DFID Africa Regional Workshop on PRS Monitoring

Ongoing

Fighting Poverty in Africa: Are PRSPs Making a Difference?
2004

State Responsiveness to Poverty: The Politics of Pro-Poor Policy-Making and Implementation

2004

Support to the Strategic Planning and Poverty Monitoring Department of MINECOFIN, Government of Rwanda

2004

Support to Pakistan's Participatory Poverty Assessment

2003

Poverty and Social Impact Analysis - Uganda

2003

Training Workshop on Finnish Aid in a PRS Context

2003

DFID East Africa: Social Development Support

2002

Plan for the Modernisation of Agriculture, Monitoring and Evaluation Study - Uganda

2002

Fighting Poverty Strategically? Lessons from Swedish Tanzanian Development Cooperation, 1997- 2000

2001

Combining Survey-based and Participatory Methods for Poverty Monitoring

2001

SPA PRSP Institutionalisation Study

2001

Desk Study on Good Practice in the Development of PRSP Indicators and Monitoring Systems

2001

Combining Participatory and Survey-based Approaches to Poverty Monitoring and Analysis - Background Paper

2001

PRSP Institutionalisation Study

2001

Pro-Poor Growth: Why Do We Need it? What Does it Mean? And What Does it Imply for Policy?

2001

Towards National Public Expenditure Strategies for Poverty Reduction

2000

Poverty and transport: A report prepared for the World Bank and DFID
2000

Experiencing poverty in Africa: perspectives from anthropology

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